Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-07
.WAKRENS NOTES.

W. !. Kelly has been appointed
deputy recorder for Warrens district.
A mail route from Warrens to Alton
will be petitioned for early next spring.
Mcphee and Reardon located the old
Rescue mine and all its works recently.
Ed. Brooks has purchased of B. F.
Morris and John Auchinvole the lower
claim on the Meadows.
Frank Smith employs train of TWEEN
ty-two animals in packing up and down
and to and from the south fork.
E. L. Root had bad luck this season
in having his long drain race filed up
with debris and otherwise damaged by
the high water.
The FREE PRFss can now be found in
every miners cabin in Idaho county
south of Salmon river. Wish we could
say as much for Camas prairie.
The editor spent three weeks pros
pecting in Alton and will have much
to say about that bonanza camp at a
later date. 1t is the coming camp.
Frank Hauber has sold his interest
in the new claims on Grouse creek to
his former partners. who are digging
ditch and getting ready for next year.
John Cary is going to put up small
sawmill this winter on Boulder creek,
to furnish himself with lumber to re-
pair the wire bridge, and build a new
house, stable and barn.
Geo. Helm and Jas. Edwards have
q quartz location on Grouse creek
called the Iron, which, judging by the
Aoat rock ought to make them rich men
when they and the ledge.
The proprietors of the Senator Beck
lode in Alton district have been asked
to bond the mine for year, but the
boys have too good a thing to care
about putting the property out of their
own reach for SO long time.
Ike circuit and R. 9. Divine have
pulled out gum-boot-ful of money
from their Thomas creek claims this
season. Divine subscribed for three
copies OF this apostolic journal to be
sent to friends in the states.
George Riebold has purchased Dun
can concentrator which he will erect as
an attachment to the Little Giant mill /,
in order to save the amalgam which
escapes from the batteries. 1t is now
ON its way In on Benson's train.
A prospector from Bay-horse jumped
the old Tramp quartz mine on Steam
boat creek lately. which Oh. Johnson
used to- own. The property was pro-
bated and passed to Hexter, who says
that the new claimant has jumped a
lawsuit with it.
Ed. Brooks found and located ledge
Of rich ore on Logan creek, on our late
trip to Alton, the groupings of which
look better than any yet found in the
district. He named it A. w. Talking
ton. in honor of our sheriff, who is
Jointly interested in the location.
Norman Wiley will drive the long
projected lower tunnel into the Knott
mine this winter. and tap the ledge at a
level below the high. grade quartz which
he has lately extracted from the mine.
We hope he will strike a chimney of
rich ore in the new slopes that will net
him a hundred thousand dollars at his
next crushing, for he deserves it.
With wagon road and custom mill
the quartz interests of Warrens would
employ 500 white men. The subject is
agitating the camp considerably this
year. and the sentiment is rapidly
crystalyzing around the solid fact that
the road is necessity and must be
built. When that good time comes
Camas prairie will have big and pro-
fitable market for its products.
Bro. Leland, of the story Teller. with
his usual veracity in his efforts to keep
idaho county in the background, claims
in his paper that it will cost $2OOOOO to
build wagon road from the Weiser
country to Warrens. Leland has only
exaggerated $4,000 worth. Geo. RE
bold will build the road for $1,000, and
as it will be built before many moons
bro. Leland may as we'll give the re-
cording angel rest.
Frank Breaker, better known as
French Frank, was found dead Sunday,
Sept. A, on the trail between Warrens
and Shissler creek, about mile from
Shissler's old mill. He was working
for A. Floyd on Shissler creek. and had
started for town the previous Wednes.
day when he dropped dead in his tracks
Of heart disease. He was about seventy
years old and had resided in this county
since the early sos. The body was
brought to town and buried the same
evening by the light of the moon.
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